I've doggone gone and done it....

Before and after...

We've been debating it for weeks. I finally just did it. Not drastically, I couldn't bring myself to do that...just a little so that he will stop being called a girl by the old people in the commissary...










He's our little pig pen too so hopefully this will alleviate a little of that!

President Hinckley

President Hinckley passed away tonight. My SIL just called and filled me in. Deseretnews.com is super busy so I haven't been able to get on and look. Maybe you'll have better luck.

Sunday stroll...

So we went for a walk today around Beaver Lake here on post. I thought I would share...

My Slytherin...you can even see his dark mark tattooed on his left arm...



Cutest baby!!! Haven't figured him out yet. :)










My sweet big dude!! Looks so grown up here! He's my HufflePuff for sure! Friendly little dude! My little Cedric Diggory!



















I loved David's pose! He always says he's posing like Dr Who. We called him Huck and he got mad and said he wasn't Huckleberry but it came out sounding like HunckleMerry To which Nathan said, "We call him Huck, which is short for Huckleberry which rhymes with Uncle Mary, which is what everybody thought of him." HAHA I laughed so hard!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHKKKKKKKKKK!!

I just wanted to get your attention...

Because......


WOOOt WOOOOOOt !!!

Today, we became completely credit card debt free.

And paid off one student loan.

The only consumer debt we have is our car...which we have paid down substantially. And it WILL BE PAID OFF BY JUNE!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!

The only thing we will have after that is our student loans....we have a LOT of student loans...when I say ALOT and you think of a number...trust me...it's still not enough...we have A LOT of student loans... but we have developed a plan in which, if all goes according to plan, those will be paid off in TWO YEARS!!!!!!! AGH....dies of shock...

You know, even though we have so many student loans, I wouldn't trade the fact that I have my degree, or those best years of my life, for ANYTHING! I really had a blast...It would have been nice to have not had to pay for them at a 7% interest rate, but oh well...

Now...this is a big deal for us...Nathan and I have learned THE HARD WAY about debt. Trust me...DON"T DO IT!!!! Get out...Run away screaming!!!! You DON"T have to have debt, even though you think you do!!!! I have BTDT in a MAJOR way and I was lucky enough to have come out of it all with my marriage intact and having friends who were there for me in a BIG way...
I can't thank you all enough...

I can't tell you how lighter this has made Nathan and I feel today. It's such HUGE deal b/c we have been suffering from our bad decisions for the last 5 years and we don't have to anymore...and to actually think that in 6 months we will have our car, which has less than 40,000 miles on it, paid off!!! That's a huge deal for both of us.


Thank you, Dave Ramsey, for opening my eyes and thank you June for the gift! I knew it deep down before, but reading that book just shoved it up my nose....

So we went out today and didn't have to worry about buying some things we wanted/needed for around the house b/c we COULD!! And we bought steak, and Kids Cuisines (which we NEVER buy) to celebrate....mmm....time for dinner!

I have a new grandma...

So...My grandfather who is in his late 80s...*

Married his "girlfriend" of many many years


And now I have a new uncle too!

I've never had an uncle with a prison record before!

I kid you not...


*(Not really my grandfather...)

Wow.

I just realized I've passed the 200 posts mark! Yippee! (Throws confetti)

Whatever.

So, today is the 100th day of school. Yippee! (Throws confetti) ... David had to take 100 alike things to school so I sent him with a bag of 100 marshmallows. The little fruity ones. It's a good thing we sorted out the 100 like 4 days ago cause we would have eaten all of them otherwise. MMMMmmmmm little fruity marshmallowssssss....

He has had a rough week at school. He has had to "Change his color" everyday this week and yesterday he went all the way to red! I tried to get him to tell me what happened and he kept saying he didn't want to tell me. Eventually I got something out of him but then I said I was gonna write a note to Mrs. O to see what we could do about it and then he opened up about playing with this and bangin markers and stuff. I still wrote the note but he sat by me while I wrote it and made me read it to him. Ahh, I remember the trepidation of being a child and having parents go "talk to the teacher". Yikes! I assured him it was ok. I really just want her to know that I'm not letting it slide and that it means a lot to us that he does well cause I don't want him to get stigmatized as a "bad" child. That can happen easily. I've been a teacher and had the urge myself.

Well, I'm off to Nashville next week for Obadiah's memorial. It is sort of bittersweet though b/c I am going to have the opportunity to see a lot of my old friends. I am sad that it is such an unfortunate reason for us to get together but glad that we can. I must be really shallow cause once I knew I was going I thought, I need a haircut...

:P

So, i have been thinking about my This I Believe and I had a really good thought and then it left my brain. So I am going back to my original thought...

I believe in potential...I believe that I have the potential to be a really good mom, if I just get off my butt and turn off the Wiggles movie. I will never be June Cleaver, but I still have the potential to influence my children in positive ways. My husband has great potential. He has been trying to find his way for a while now and has found something he loves doing and has the potential to be great at it. Not necessarily flying though he will be great at that too. My children have a tremendous amount of potential. But it's my responsibility as their parent to mold and help them realize what that is. I believe that we all have the potential to be someone else's ... I will use the term because I can't think of one better...savior... I have had saviors in my life, people who have swept in at a moment of dire need and been there for me or provided something that I desperately needed. We all have the potential of doing this if we put aside ourselves and look for opportunities of need around us. Having potential, technically defined as "may" or "might", it would become easy to procrastinate though so I also believe in acting on your potential. Not putting off your possibilites..."Lay aside the Ranger and become the King you were born to be..."

ok ok enough random Lord of the Rings quotes...I believe in potential...and eventually reaching that potential....trying at least!



So that's what I believe....amongst other things...lots of other things....

It's 8:30 in the morning and my two youngest are STILL asleep. That never happens...enjoy the silence....ooh, I am.

I have the potential to do the laundry today....hmmm....

Tech geek...and not in the good way...

So, I was about to upload a really cool template for my blog and it was gonna erase all my widgets!!!!! No way! I'll keep it boring. At least for now. I don't wanna have to update everything again!!

Ugh

Man, my blog is really boring. I am trying to upload a header and because my template is "Stretched" it's not fitting. Ugh. Maybe it's time to change some things...

Yes!

Your Bumper Sticker Should Be

What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?

What Bumper Sticker Should Be On Your Car?

Yep, I'm pretty bored.

You Are Rain

You can be warm and sexy. Or cold and unwelcoming. Either way, you slowly bring out the beauty around you. You are best known for: your touch Your dominant state: changing

What Type of Weather Are You?

YYYYYYYYYikes.

Your Daddy Is Bill O'Reilly

What You Call Him: Pa Why You Love Him: He's your sugar daddy

Who's Your Daddy?